Drying unit



P. J. MURRAY Nov. 8, 1938.

DRYING UNIT Original Filed Aug. 29/1956 2 Sheets-Sheet l I I I .76

Nqv. s, 1938. P, J, MW'W 2,135,781-

DRYING UNIT Original Filed Aug. 29, 1936 2 Sheets-sheaf 2 50 at one time so that as the duplex bowl or flask is as effective as possible the waist area and desirably held within the fittingat the adjustment point. 55

Patented Nov. 8, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DRYING UNIT Patrick Joseph Murray, Clifton Heights, Pa., as-

signor to Trisco Products, Inc, Philadelphia, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Original application August 29, 1936, Serial No. 98,571. Divided and this application May 28, 1937, Serial No. 145,224

5 Claims. (Cl. 223-77) The present unit relates to a device intended also some part or all of each of the bowls are for any use for which it proves suitable, but internally so surfaced as to produce a washboard having its present best and widest use in the eifect. This washboard surfacing of the indrying of stockings after washing and reterior of the waist is shown in the form of cor- 5 treatment by the individual users, making it posrugations l8 comprising projecting ribs and 5 sible to make the stockings look like new. It is grooves 2|. As shown at 22, part of each bowl applicable also to fine underwear. need not be covered with corrugations.

This application is a division of application Because it is very desirable that the progress Serial No. 98,571, filed August 29, 1936, for of the operation may be watched to advantage 10 Laundering unit for silk hosiery. from the exterior, the flask if not made from 10 A purpose of the invention is to provide carryglass will normally be made of a highly transing mounts for the drying of stockings. parent resin.

A further purpose is to springeclamp forms for The duplex bowls are shown as provided with stretching and drying washed and treated stockflattened bottom sections upon which convenings to a base which mounts a receptable for iently the flask may be rested. These are se- .15

washing and treating them. cured by altering the contours of the corruga- A further purpose is to position a stocking tions, as at 33, 34. The end I3 is also flattened drying form on a radiator or other heating device as at 35 so that the flask may rest upon it.

by a removable base which directs warm air to The flask is conveniently mounted upon a dry stockings, boarded on the form. stand 36 having a top 31. Clips 38 and 39 engage 20 Further purposes will appear in the specificathe flask at a convenient place preferably at the tion and in the claims. waist and retain the flask against lateral move- One main form only of the invention is shown ment. The clips 38 and 3 are p ng clip S0 selecting a form which is practical and eflicient that the flask may be held within any resilient in operation and which well illustrates the prinrestraint desired. In the illustration these clips 25 ciples involved. are given an added function in that they are Figure l is a sectional plan of structure emcurved outwardly and circularly at 40 and 4| to bodying a desirable form of the invention. receive collapsible tubes 42 and 43 within which Figure 2 is a front elevation of the structure of washing and treating materials are contained. gure 1. The spring clips end at 44 and 45 in tabs which 30 Figure 3 is a section of Figure 2 taken upon the may be engaged by the hands of the user to line 33 thereof. expand the curved portions of the clips so that I Figure 4 is a reduced scale view corresponding the tubes 42 and 43 may be removed to the best to Figure 2 but illustrating in its entirety a stockadvantage. However, the contents of the tubes 5 ing form shown as a fragment only in Fi u e 2. ay be Pressed from them, While the tubes are Like numerals refer to like parts. in place, by winding up keys 46. Describing in illustration but not in limitation The stand 36 is slitted in suitable point and referring to the drawings: 49 and 50 corresponding in number with the de- The construction of the washing vessel is not sired number of drying forms 5| to be supplied important to the present case, and the particuso that these forms may be inverted and held in 40 lar construction shown is merely illustrative. position for use. A duplex washbowl or flask In, of preferably As illustrated the forms 5! are constructed of dumb-bell shape, shown to best advantage in wire united at the end of the leg portions by fit- Figure 2, comprises two interconnected individual tings 52, fastenedeach rigidly to one leg portion bowls H and I2 connected by a waist, closed at as 53 and transversely directed at the otherwise 45 one end at 53 and open at the opposite end at 14, open ends 54 of the fittings so as to receive and except as closed by any suitable cap l5. Each frictionally to engage extensions 55 of the other individual bowl preferably is large enough to sides 56 of the legportions of the forms. contain all of the articles intended to be washed The extensions 55 are intended to pass within the open ends 54 to varying extents according rocked or shaken by the hands of the user the v to the size of leg portion of the stocking to which articles to be washed may be shifted from bowl the individual form is to be accommodated. to bowl across the intervening waist I1. Whatever the adjustment of the leg width de- In order that the'washing may be as fully termined upon, .the extension is frictionally The friction may be secured to advantage by so bending the wire that the extension 55 is out of line with the axis of the fitting in order that the resilience of the extension may be utilized to secure proper friction between the parts.

The fittings 52 pass through the slots or slits within the base into the space formed by flange 51 and into pockets 58, 59, 60, 6|. These pockets are provided by reversely bending strip 62 fastened to the base at its ends 63, 64. The pockets may be sufiiciently contracted at their upper ranges 65 so as to give .a spring effect against the lower ends of the forms, holding the forms in position as shown.

The walls of the pockets are intended to engage whatever form contour is presented to them, the edges of the slits in the floor forming limits to prevent undue side swinging movement of the forms within whatever frictional engaging surface is provided beneath the fioor of the base.

The parts of the base and holder may be assembled readily for example by spot-Welding the clips 38 and 39 and the retainer strip 62 to the base.

The fitting 52 may serve a triple purpose, not

' only in uniting the ends of the drying form and in providing adjustment of the ends of the form, but in cooperating with the pockets free from interference with the adjustment.

A boarded stocking is shown at 66 in Figure 4 upon a form having a trombone type of adjustable toe at 61. No claim is made in the present application of this toe-adjustment which is embodied in United States Patent No. 2,120,219, granted May 12, 1938 for Stocking form and support.

In washing and treating a pair of stockings, for example, the user fills the flask about half full of water in which the stockings are placed with the usual prescribed quantity of soap from the soap tube, or of soap flakes, closes the flask by the cap and shakes the contents back and forth over the ribs or other corrugations in the'waist or/and in the bowls.

The resultant passage of air and soapy water through the stockings along with the rubbing of. the stockings against the corrugations quickly and thoroughly cleans the stockings, which are then rinsed in the flask in changes of rinsing water. The water, always left in the bottoms of the corrugation grooves permits improved circulation.

The stockings are next treated in the flask with a finishing material such as is used on new stockings, to deluster, finish and water proof the fabric. The chemicals for this use are provided in the second tube. Rocking the flask gives a more rapid distribution of the treating material in the water and more rapid and uniform impregnation of the stockings with this material than would otherwise be effected.

The stockings are next boarded and are dried on the forms. This gives a shape corresponding to that of new stockings which shows off the finish to excellent advantage. The treating or finishing material also helps to preserve the life of the stockings. As a result the user secures long life of stockings which to theend of their life have new stocking appearance.

It will be evident that drying of the stockings above a radiator or register is facilitated by the construction of the base, the. flange about the lower edge of the base forming a hot air compartment beneath the top, and the hot air being guided up through the individual stockings by the slits within which the stocking forms are mounted.

In view of my invention and disclosure variations and modifications to meet individual whim or particular need will doubtless become evident to others skilled in the art to obtain all or part of the benefits of my invention without copying the structure shown and I therefore claim all such in so far as they fall within the reasonable spirit and scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A device for drying stockings comprising a base and a stocking form of bent wire whose ends are adjustably united in a tubular fitting at the leg portion of the form, supported on the base, the base consisting of a plate having a slit into which the lower end of the form including the fitting is received, with gripping walls secured to the. plate to engage the sides of the fitting when it passes through the slit, the slit being longer than the width of the lower end of the stocking form in minimum adjustment and the tubular fitting entering the slit, whereby the stocking form is adjustable while supported in the slit.

2. A base for stocking forms having a domed portion open at the bottom for upward movement of warm air, closed at the sides and ends and slitted at the top, the slit being adapted to receive the lowerend of a stocking form, and means for securing a stocking form in the slit with the foot end upstanding, said means providing an opening for air to leave the domed portion through the slit, whereby warm air from the domed portion will rise through the slit and at least in part circulate through a stocking on the form.

3. A base, spring retaining means within the base, a stocking form of wire having one wire end bent transversely toward the other wire end at the leg end of the stocking form, an angle fitting having a tubular arm directed longitudinally of the form engaging the other wire end and having a tubular arm directed transversely from one side of the form toward the other side of the form adjustably frictionally engaging and surrounding ,the transversely bent wire portion, the longitudinal arm of the fitting supporting the stocking form from the base and the transverse arm of the fitting permitting adjustment of the form while it is supported by the base.

4. In a stocking drying device, a base provided with a slit, a stocking form including an adjustment for the spacing of the sides of the form at the leg end, the stocking form being positioned with the foot end upstanding and with the leg end in the slit, and means secured to the base for removably holding the stocking form, said means engaging the stocking form in all adjusted positions and permitting adjustment of the spacing of the sides of the stocking form while the form is held in the slit.

5. In a stocking drying device, a stocking form, means including a fitting for adjusting the spacing of the sides of the form at the leg end, a base having a slit and means attached to the base and registering with the slit for removably holding the stocking form in the slit with the foot end upstanding and with the leg end in the slit, the means for adjusting the spacing for the side being operative when the form is held by the cans for removably holdingthe form in the slit. I

PATRICK JOSEPH MURRAY. 

